# Counties in Minnesota by annual precipitation, 2025

All 87 values come from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `precipitation_annual`
- Unit: inches
- Definition: Total precipitation from January to December, in inches: rain plus the water content of snow and other frozen precipitation. NOAA computes it from its climate divisional dataset (nClimDiv): station readings interpolated onto a 5 km grid and averaged over the area.
- Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/noaa-ncei
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. From the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (nClimDiv), doi:10.7289/V5M32STR. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/minnesota-counties

| Rank | Place | inches |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mower County | 39.9 |
| 2 | Waseca County | 38.74 |
| 3 | Freeborn County | 38.43 |
| 4 | Fillmore County | 37.78 |
| 5 | Steele County | 37.33 |
| 6 | Faribault County | 36.53 |
| 7 | Winona County | 35.56 |
| 8 | Dodge County | 34.93 |
| 9 | Olmsted County | 34.18 |
| 10 | Rice County | 34.01 |
| 11 | Dakota County | 33.87 |
| 12 | Houston County | 33.82 |
| 13 | Yellow Medicine County | 33.58 |
| 14 | Chippewa County | 33.41 |
| 15 | Stevens County | 33.18 |
| 16 | Pope County | 33.01 |
| 17 | Kandiyohi County | 32.77 |
| 18 | Blue Earth County | 32.64 |
| 19 | Carver County | 32.49 |
| 20 | Hennepin County | 32.3 |
| 21 | Swift County | 32.25 |
| 22 | Lac qui Parle County | 32.22 |
| 23 | Ramsey County | 32.06 |
| 24 | Washington County | 32.01 |
| 25 | Meeker County | 31.72 |
| 26 | Stearns County | 31.66 |
| 27 | Scott County | 31.56 |
| 28 | Goodhue County | 31.43 |
| 29 | Lyon County | 31.4 |
| 30 | Douglas County | 30.93 |
| 31 | Wright County | 30.87 |
| 32 | Lincoln County | 30.62 |
| 33 | Le Sueur County | 30.61 |
| 34 | Martin County | 30.26 |
| 35 | Big Stone County | 30.14 |
| 36 | Grant County | 30.12 |
| 37 | Wabasha County | 30.09 |
| 38 | Anoka County | 29.58 |
| 39 | Cook County | 29.52 |
| 40 | Traverse County | 29.32 |
| 41 | Todd County | 29.28 |
| 42 | McLeod County | 28.63 |
| 43 | Murray County | 28.18 |
| 44 | Watonwan County | 28.13 |
| 45 | Benton County | 27.94 |
| 46 | Jackson County | 27.77 |
| 47 | Chisago County | 27.56 |
| 48 | Lake County | 27.26 |
| 49 | Sherburne County | 27.05 |
| 50 | Isanti County | 27.03 |
| 51 | Cottonwood County | 26.84 |
| 51 | Nobles County | 26.84 |
| 53 | Morrison County | 26.82 |
| 54 | Redwood County | 26.01 |
| 55 | St. Louis County | 25.97 |
| 56 | Kanabec County | 25.69 |
| 57 | Pine County | 25.6 |
| 58 | Otter Tail County | 25.44 |
| 59 | Brown County | 24.96 |
| 60 | Mille Lacs County | 24.95 |
| 61 | Wilkin County | 24.93 |
| 62 | Renville County | 24.84 |
| 63 | Crow Wing County | 24.82 |
| 64 | Pipestone County | 24.57 |
| 65 | Sibley County | 24.23 |
| 66 | Nicollet County | 24.17 |
| 67 | Mahnomen County | 23.83 |
| 68 | Wadena County | 23.49 |
| 69 | Becker County | 23.18 |
| 70 | Cass County | 23.15 |
| 71 | Aitkin County | 23.1 |
| 72 | Hubbard County | 22.78 |
| 73 | Rock County | 22.67 |
| 74 | Carlton County | 22.37 |
| 75 | Koochiching County | 22.32 |
| 76 | Itasca County | 22.17 |
| 77 | Clearwater County | 22.13 |
| 78 | Clay County | 22.03 |
| 79 | Lake of the Woods County | 21.35 |
| 80 | Norman County | 21.18 |
| 81 | Beltrami County | 20.88 |
| 82 | Polk County | 19.56 |
| 83 | Roseau County | 19.01 |
| 84 | Red Lake County | 18.85 |
| 85 | Kittson County | 18.14 |
| 86 | Pennington County | 17.67 |
| 87 | Marshall County | 17.57 |